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Item Number: 115752
Title: The Art of Deceleration : Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei
Author: Rosa, Hartmut ; Hartmut Böhme
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783775732437
Description: Edited by Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2011. 30cm., hardcover, 304pp., 402 illus., 335 in color. English text. Exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Summary: Modern art used to be primarily equated with acceleration, from William Turner to Futurism, from the abstract and the kinetic to media-generated art. On the other hand, little attention is paid to the fact that the fascination with speed has always been combined with a search for the aesthetics of deceleration, something that would explore the dynamics of quiet and the depths of existences, starting with the images of yearning produced by the Romantics, to the profound “slow painting” by artists such as Mark Rothko or Franz Gertsch. This is the first volume to examine this modern dialectic, condensing a theme that hits a societal nerve. Well-known authors, such as sociologist Hartmut Rosa and cultural scientist Hartmut Böhme, discuss the problems of technology- and economy-based acceleration and the increasing need to slow down.
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